I’m sure Sinatra was part of the mix because he was her favorite vocalist.” During intermission my mother would pipe through music. Back in the 1950s when Twyla was 8 years old, she worked at her mother’s drive-in theater in San Bernardino, Calif. Her introduction to Sinatra came early, through her mother. If you’re going to go popular, why not go with the best?” Tharp first used Sinatra songs for “Once More Frank” (1976), which she performed with Mikhail Baryshnikov at an American Ballet Theatre gala. “I look at it as a silent movie,” she says. Tharp manages to roll together ballroom dance, hip-hop, modern, and ballet technique into choreography as expressive of emotions and frustrations as the whispered repartee between lovers. Although the plotlines are familiar – and inconsequential – the moves of the dancers are not. The action unfolds in a nightclub, with an 18-piece live orchestra, and occasionally a female vocalist, warbling along to Sinatra’s recorded voice. “Come Fly Away” is a joyous evening in the theater, fueled by a company of virtuoso dancers whom Tharp has prodded into delivering performances that sizzle. “ Come Fly Away,” a wordless musical that follows four couples in and out of love, is currently playing at New York’s Marquis Theatre. Veteran choreographer Twyla Tharp has been making dances to the Frank Sinatra songbook for more than 30 years, so it was no surprise she turned again to Ol’ Blue Eyes for her latest foray onto Broadway.
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